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the opportunity itself which cryptocurrency comprises. By using any
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risks which may be involved depending on your strategy for
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Author is not to be held liable for any losses or liabilities you may
incur. How you conduct yourself and apply this material presented;
and how the marketplace takes shape where cryptocurrencies are
concerned are all beyond the Author’s control. As the Ferengi in
Star Trek say, “The riskier the road, the greater the profits.”
Risk cannot be eliminated completely, but this book intends to
minimize it, while hopefully not minimizing the potential rewards.
Cryptocurrency should never be regarded as equal to traditional
securities and investments, nor should cryptocurrency be mistaken for
them. No cryptocurrencies or their exchanges have any kind of deposit
insurance.

DEDICATION

This book is hereby
dedicated to my parents, especially my Dad who is lucky to have
survived so many near death catastrophes in recent years, worst of
all being 2016: Here’s to you being around many more years, in
hopefully better health. There’s been a lot of good years, and a
lot of bad years; but here’s to making the best of the years that
are left. You are proof that anyone can make it through anything if
they are determined enough. And thank you Mom, for being supportive
of me in all my ventures, especially through the many failures I’ve
had all through my life before finding any measures of success.

I once believed
Bitcoin would never be worth much. Then, I came to believe only
Bitcoin could ever be worth much: Dozens of examples had proven me
wrong, and I must fully acknowledge my friend known as “Bea” for
helping me to see the light so that I may not continually pass up
limitless opportunities in altcoins: The cryptocurrency opportunities
of which are the very basis of this guide and why I’ve authored it.

I further owe a
great debt of thanks to my best of friends, who are the best of
muses, without whom there would have been no discussions or
motivation for me to push onward towards success:

Tiffany Porter:

I couldn’t have
asked for a greater friend, nor a truer one; you helped me find my
old self that I thought was lost forever; and you helped me back onto
my life’s path that I always was on but somehow had lost sight of;
until you came out of nowhere and put me back on my proper path. I
owe you a tremendous debt of thanks and gratitude for this not to
mention you are the largest source of positivity and encouragement
I’ve ever known.

Danielle Ahrens:

You have been a
greatly inspirational muse and a great friend whose discussions have
helped me see all the good that my work can accomplish.

Stephanie:

You’ve always been
a massive source of positive energy for me, and great friendship; I
didn’t mean to drop off your radar for so long, so often, but at
least you get to see what I’ve spent my time working on!

“Kunrad”:

You’ve always been
there to bounce ideas off of for nearly nine years, almost every day,
too; so here’s to the “gambler of all gamblers.”

To all of my other
friends: So many of you worthy of acknowledgement, but I can’t
write a whole book of acknowledgements! You are not necessarily less
important or less appreciated. During this project, the people so
acknowledged were instrumental in motivating me to actually finish
this project that I never thought I’d see the end of writing.

"There
should be no war upon property or the owners of property. Property is
the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the
world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich,
hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."
-President Abraham Lincoln

“The real
tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.” -Adam
Smith, Economist

“All the
perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from
defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of
honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the
nature of coin, credit and circulation.” – President John Adams

PART I: OPPORTUNITY & SKEPTICISM

This first chapter
is intended to be a wakeup-call. A wakeup-call for what you ask?
Opportunity. Much of our misery is due to missed opportunity, and
most of our success is due to catching opportunity at the right place
and at the right time, with the right attitude. What is the primary
cause of missed opportunity? Skepticism which tells us opportunity
could never be real for us, since it is something that other people
always find, right? Particularly damaging to our cause is the fact
that we cannot go back in time to fix our mistake of missing it since
now is the furthest back in time that you will ever be. Every second
which has passed, and is passing even now as you read these words, is
a second closer you are to being too late for any number of
opportunities. Hindsight is 20/20, but one man’s hindsight is
another man’s foresight.

This chapter is also
a motivational journey through opportunity; to explore what it is and
means with the purpose being to illustrate the costs of ignoring or
missing them as well as to demonstrate the vast benefits of seeking
them out and leveraging them into success. If you don’t see what it
can actually do for you, there’s no incentive to even bother with
it; which there is a lot of incentive. I would bet money that
cryptocurrencies have made more millionaires than all of the MLM /
Pyramid programs combined in their entire history, and with far less
work and investment. It is human nature to be skeptical of new
things, and to be resistant towards their assimilation into our daily
lives, which is why we miss out on these things. Skepticism and doubt
clouds our judgement and keeps us from seeing opportunity for what it
is.

All people are equal
in the eyes of opportunity; what makes real inequality is how our
ambition, initiative, and mindsets as individuals are so different
from one person to the next. If you give a hundred people the same
gear, training, and opportunity; it is very likely you will have a
hundred different degrees of successes and failures. There will be
some who succeed spectacularly, and others who have failed
spectacularly. Just as you cast sand into moving water and it
stratifies by density and composition, the same is true about people
when cast upon the waters of the everyday world.

Cryptocurrency is
new to a lot of people, and it can be intimidating for the beginner
as it can be difficult to grasp the concept at first. This is not
surprising considering it really is a new breakthrough for the
enabling of free enterprise and allowing for us to, in some regards,
be our own bankers. We tend to hold a high degree of skepticism and
contempt for those things we do not perceive as serious or worthy of
our consideration and time. If you were to sit down with a piece of
paper and write down everything you could have bought into but talked
yourself out of buying that would have made you wealthy, I am sure it
will be a lengthy list for the average person. When I write such a
list, it actually is a disheartening and humbling thing to
experience, but it causes me to focus on what I can do going forward
so that I minimize the chance of missing out yet again.

Skepticism makes us
not do things which we should do when it is the perfect time to do
them, leaving us to do them when the boat has already sailed away
leaving us to miss out on the bulk of the rewards; although there
also are times when doubt insulates us from excessive and reckless
risks. The greater the risks are the greater the rewards will be;
safety is not rewarded, because there is no risk in taking the safe
route even though the safe route can be rather risky as well.

This is why the
nine-to-five mentality usually results in mediocrity, and those who
rise above mediocrity and the paycheck to paycheck syndrome have
generally done something on the side to take some risks and dare to
do something more than what is simply necessary to survive. There are
people who adamantly believe we “exist only to work a career and to
pay taxes” and who also justify living in mediocrity by repeating
the “money doesn’t buy happiness” bit…

No, money does not
buy happiness, but I can guarantee you poverty doesn’t either.
Divorces, suicides, bad health, all too often are linked to A. debt,
and B. missed opportunities that were so massive the people who
missed them go stark raving mad as a result and cannot handle missing
the boat. Everyone has their breaking points, and it is imperative
that we as human beings find success before we reach those breaking
points. Yet even though opportunity crosses our paths fairly often,
we are oblivious to it. Even I am guilty of not taking opportunity
for what it is, and it is painful to always miss out. Why must we
have to work until our backs and health fail? Why must we put so much
of our lives into not getting anywhere? Well, we don’t have to. We
just keep missing the signs which would point us to a better path,
however you are now on the right track to stop doing that!

We don’t grow up
wanting to fail; we grow up wanting to succeed, but settling for a
nine-to-five and not aspiring for more is not exactly success. A
rising tide raises all ships… If you miss the boat and aren’t on
a ship, well, you are drowning in this thing we call life. Life isn’t
fair but we can do something about that, if we are aware of the fact
there is something that can be done.

When we have it in
our capacity to do the things we live for doing when we want to do
them, that is true success. If you don’t want to be rich, which
there are those people, how much success is necessary for you to
fulfill your destiny and to allow you to live the life you wanted to
always have? That should be our priority while we are here on Earth,
to be true to ourselves, and do everything we can while we can to
build that success. That is what the American Dream really is, to be
free of having to do that which we don’t want to do so that we can
be happy in the things we enjoy doing. Could you face your younger
self if you had the opportunity to do so and honestly say you did not
let “you” down? If you feel like you have let yourself down, now
is the time to start changing that.

The goal is to no
longer be forced to spend our lives doing jobs we hate because those
things we love doing are not able to pay the bills. That’s the
difference between a job/career/business and a hobby. To be able to
do everything you want should be what motivates you to rise above
your lot in life and surpass this “mediocrity” which plagues
society. Some say they love their jobs, and some actually do: If it
weren’t for the paycheck, would you still show up for work? Why
work hard all your life for very little to show for it when you can
stop missing every opportunity which comes along, and finally be on
top of the world yourself for once? Millionaires are created every
day of the year, why not you be one of them, too?

We live in a society
that does not teach people about opportunity or how to leverage it;
nor how to spot it for that matter. Some are born with this gift of
seeing it and it is second nature to them; however, the majority of
people just don’t have this vision to see meaningful opportunity
for what it is. It isn’t an insult, and it isn’t their fault as
it is how society has engineered each new generation to think and
look at the world. Once upon a time entire industries were built by
people who had nothing but a few cents in their pocket and
determination. Now, instead of the era of industry and empire
builders, we’ve arrived at an era largely comprised of misery
builders. Only we have the power within ourselves to succeed or fail,
and we must assert our abilities to make it happen so we can break
this cycle of proliferating misery.

“But the world
can’t function if no one has to work,” is the argument that comes
up next. It’s not that big of an argument really. You see, there
are people who if they could do anything in life for the love of
doing it, would want to keep doing what they already do. For example,
there are a large number of truck drivers who can’t imagine living
any other kind of life and the only way for them to ever give it up
is when their health fails them. It is the freedom of the road, the
grinding of the gears, and the whine of the diesel that gets into
their blood and they don’t want to live apart from it. As for ditch
diggers, it takes capital to afford opportunities, and labor is the
first price by which capital is bought; with capital being that which
is necessary to go into business or otherwise invest in an
opportunity, so let the young people work the jobs no one wants to
work, worst case it would take them a few years to build up enough
resources to expand into something a bit more lucrative and be free
of it letting the cycle repeat again.

There are many
failures before one finds success, so people go back to work until
they can try again. Look at Nikola Tesla, he was taken advantage of
by Thomas Edison so he resigned and ended up being a ditch digger,
and then went on to be the most prolific inventor and I’d argue the
most important one in history! Sure there will be vacuums in the
economy if people no longer had to do their lousy jobs only for the
income, but the world will always find ways to make do.

I owe my living to
my ability to seek out opportunity. Yes, I’ve missed a lot of
opportunity. Half a dozen times I could have been wealthy, but other
people have always found ways to interfere and obstruct my
participating in these opportunities. I’ve availed myself to enough
smaller opportunities to survive on and in fact, I’ve made it an
objective to write books focused around the intent of sharing the
whole concept of opportunity and seeking it out. This is one such
book. If you were never able to find opportunity, here in these pages
you will find one of the biggest there is, and how to make use of it
while you can!

The only thing I am
selling, is this book itself and I didn’t even ask a high price for
it. What I make off of you ends there with royalties on the original
purchase. In the long term, more people involved with
cryptocurrencies will influence the market values to increase, but
that is to all of our benefit if we are invested in them. I am not
selling subscriptions, I am not pushing a service, what is within the
covers of this guide is it. Your only obligation here is that if you
buy the book, learn all you can from what I am presenting you. Even
if you decide cryptocurrency is not for you, the seeds of seeking
opportunity in all of its forms, have been sown.

There are many
“opportunity guides” selling for a small fortune, but I am not
that kind of author. In markets where a large quantity of new
participants is undesirable, the information costs a fortune because
those authors figure they will make their millions off of books and
further figure that it makes up for losing a lucrative opportunity to
the new people entering the market. I actually want to help people
and I want to see everyone take advantage of this opportunity that is
found in cryptocurrency. I am the kind of person that if I can do it,
anyone can do it, because I have tried doing what other people do so
successfully but I fail miserably, and I mean miserably at it all. If
I find my own path, I succeed. Usually I succeed at things that are
so simple, yet people assume it is more complicated than it actually
is, like cryptocurrency.

For instance, the
average person can go from one job to the next without any trouble.
As for me, I spend years looking for work, and that doesn’t pay the
bills. So, I played video poker somewhat professionally for a few
years and it paid more than I was making full time; it just required
long hours and discipline to not make mistakes while playing. When
the Video Poker was phased out due to regulation changes at the state
level, I made it my goal to write a book on the subject, which after
writing and publishing “Gold Prospecting & Placer Deposits:
Finding Gold Made Simpler”, I did manage to finally finish “Video
Poker Profits from the Ground Up.”

I then was
introduced to the world of stamps and stamp collecting, being a coin
collector I scoffed at the idea stamps could be valuable. The same
way many of you might scoff at cryptocurrency. There was a brilliant
opportunity waiting for me, ignored by most people, but I was so
biased against it until I ran into the right person that helped me
see the opportunity and value in stamps. That is the basis for
“Philatelic Philosophy: Stamp Collecting Wisdom and Opportunity”
which I wrote and published; stamps are one of the few areas in the
marketplace where you can literally build a massively valuable
collection at low, zero, or even negative cost, meaning you can
profit to build your portfolio of assets.

So you can see the
pattern here. I have never turned a profit working a nine-to-five. I
could not even get my online degree without Corinthian Colleges
(Everest Online) ripping me off in a giant scam. Millions of people
seem to get by on a nine-to-five. Millions of people seem to get
their online degrees. Everything normal people normally do, fails
miserably for me. So I must find non-conventional opportunities that
require my non-conventional skills. I am not the only one who is in
this situation, but the difference between myself and these other
people is that I am willing to share what I know, not just what I
think will sell and fatten my bank account, but what you need to know
to actually put to use what I am bringing your attention to. Any
trade secrets which I have, are to be entered within these pages. You
will have my blueprints to be able to recreate my success in
cryptocurrency by the end of this book.

In life, success
means taking the path of least resistance. Some doors open, other
doors are closed and only opened at great detriment to you if you
insist on opening them. You have to embrace what works for you, and
if you are fortunate, you will have a varied choice of many paths.
The mindset to succeed is one of “If I cannot do these things, then
what things can I actually achieve?” Why spend so much effort
worrying about making things work which aren’t working, when you
can devote that energy into things which you can actually gain ground
on?

Normally I would say
all opportunities are not a good fit for everyone, but I must
disagree in this instance. Cryptocurrencies are already being used as
money, and they are traded the same way as stocks in the stock
market. Actually they are a form of stock. People are putting Bitcoin
into their IRA’s even! Crypto’s are shares in an idea, or a
concept, in particular this means the niches the developers of the
coins are targeting. It very much has become money.

There are risks,
yes; however, they can be as great or as small as you wish to make
them. Cryptocurrency affords you complete control over your strategy
and how to approach the building of your assets. You can take the
completely free approach, or you can squirrel away a percentage of
your income into investing in them. Ten percent of your income each
month for the last three years would have made you a fortune if you
even just put it into Bitcoin! You can even build a massive mining
operation for yourself if you want to become serious about it.

It is skepticism
that will keep many of you from jumping into this life-changing
opportunity in all of its various forms. We are worried about risk
taking. If you do not want to be stuck in the rut that you are in, I
am not asking you to replace your career or anything you are doing
with any opportunity. If you want to break free from your rut,
consider that everything you do on the side will make it easier for
you to break free when the time is right. Build your airplane before
you fly!

I didn’t start
playing video poker thinking I would in a million years replace my
full time job with it. I was insulating houses and spending my days
off at the casino playing video poker for relaxation. After taking a
few days off due to fiberglass and my eyelids becoming infected from
it, I decided my eyes were worth more to me than any job. The fact I
was putting in ten to twelve hour days five days a week sometimes
six, just to make less in two weeks at work than I made on the
weekends at the casino made me consider the safety in quitting my job
and pursuing the video poker.

Modern society has
grown too comfortable and familiar with things that it on the
average, views as secure which in reality are the opposite of what
security is to the point an average nine-to-fiver is paranoid of
taking any risks at all. Consider that if you aren’t willing to
risk pursuing any opportunities on the side, you are still taking
risks. You are risking layoffs and downturns with no contingency plan
to fall back on. Self-sufficiency is true safety and security, but
you cannot be truly self-sufficient unless you find way to break free
of the paycheck to paycheck mentality and lifestyle.

A career really
becomes a trap, since work wears you down and tires you out to the
point you have no time or energy to even look at other options, and
opportunities right under your nose are often impossible to notice or
avail yourself to because legitimately there are other priorities;
family, obligations, any number of things. I am guilty of it too, and
no I am not slamming hard work and those who have great careers, but
why work harder for someone else when you can work smarter for
yourself? Think of what reaching financial freedom would do for you
and your family.

Imagine how much
better the world would be should everyone be able to do what they
want to do for a job instead of what they have to do for a job
because they need the paycheck! You can see the difference all over
the private sector, even to some degree in the public sector. Those
who love their job do what they are supposed to do with greater
efficiency than someone who despises their work. Also, how many
people do you know who had a great career, bought a house, started a
family, only to be laid off half way into raising their kids and
paying for their house and cars? Many, many people. Chances are those
are the same people who at one time told other people that they
needed to find themselves a “career”, too. What happens to you if
your current career goes away? What would you do if you had no
paycheck coming?

Consider your career
as a vehicle. You can run it until it breaks down on you leaving you
stranded; or you can work on a second vehicle in your spare time so
that at least you can rely on it in addition to anything else you
have figured out if the worst happens. For one thing, whatever wealth
you can build on the side is in addition to that which you are
already generating. What would this mean to you? Is it worth your
spending a few minutes a day on something that can potentially make
you financially independent sooner than you otherwise might or might
not ever be able to achieve?

Since we have, if we
are lucky, a hundred-year lease on life then why settle for
mediocrity and condemn ourselves to living lives we would rather
spend doing something other than what we are doing already? That is
why this book is here, to turn that light at the end of the tunnel
which we are content never to know is there, into a laser beam so it
is able to reach you even if you don’t reach it! Everyone can be
doing something extra to better their lives and reach their dreams.
To believe there is only work and survival, is to have a defeatist
mindset. There is opportunity everywhere, for everyone; that is
everyone who will see past their bubble of imagined security.

The reason so many
people work hard all their lives and die broke goes back to a failure
in society and how it collectively thinks. In order to correct this
failure, a shift in the paradigm of thinking and teaching is
necessary. I am writing this book because I want to see all of you
become successful, and this is one opportunity that by helping
everyone be successful in it we help ourselves be more successful in
it. The difference between the successful and unsuccessful people is
that those who are successful are not wasting their time and money
complaining about how unfair life is, instead they do something to
make it more equitable to themselves. It generally takes time, and it
often takes money to make success; but you must also find the
opportunity. If you have neither time, nor money, you are still in
luck because this opportunity will require as little or as much as
you wish to put into it to not totally miss out on; and it is all
explained in this book.

There are countless
“opportunities” which you hear about regularly. Many are designed
to benefit the people who thought them up, or the people who are
successful at pitching the opportunity and recruiting others to
participate. As a result, the word “opportunity” can often draw a
bad reputation and evoke negative thoughts. When I mention
opportunity, you probably immediately think of things like Amway,
Prepaid Legal, etc. Yes, they have made lots of people successful.
However, success doesn’t appear to be typical or easily attainable
for the average person who will stumble into them. Sure they have
great products, but good luck building a business with them. My
experience in such opportunities is that you need to know a lot of
people and have a lot of family whom you might go to and try to sell
things to.

The beauty of the
cryptocurrency opportunity is that there are no programs to sign up
for, no monthly membership fees just to be a part of it; there is
literally no mandatory overhead or expenses just to be involved
unlike the aforementioned programs. There is nothing to buy nothing
to sell. Cryptocurrency exchanges and marketplaces often have
referral programs but you make only a small commission on the
typically small fees that are charged by the platform. However, it is
easy to build a referral base since people signing up are wanting to
use the service anyways and registrations are always free. Exchanges
and marketplaces operating on cryptocurrency only exact their fees
when transactions occur, which is very fair. You are not paying for
something you didn’t use or are deriving no benefit from.

A major factor
involved with people being able to build success in MLM’s is there
being a mandatory subscription or fee structure which subsidizes
those in your up-line. Even if you fail at selling product, it is
possible to succeed by selling others on joining these
“opportunities.” These types of programs generally charge a
monthly fee or require you to subscribe to the service in order to be
eligible to sell the products. Often, it is a burden of hundreds of
dollars up-front. I feel much better about bringing to your
attention, an opportunity in which there are no compulsory costs.

I’ve met people
who were so successful at MLM programs that they were able to quit
their jobs after a couple of years and pocket half a million dollars
a year as a result of their success. Not everyone is cut-out for that
kind of opportunity and those kinds of results are not at all
typical, especially for people like me. Doable, but not typical. It
is a tremendous investment of time and money just to see if you have
a chance at succeeding in such programs. There is no need to invest
time and resources into cryptocurrency to wonder if it will work.
There is no if. There is only get involved in whatever capacity you
are able while the getting is good.

I’ve personally
given a full attempt at making sales opportunities work; I am not a
sales person and network marketing is not my thing. Once upon a time
I was excellent at selling, but those times in my life have passed. I
would rather operate in a passive business model whereby I do not
have quotas, and where I can actually help a lot of people. Writing
books has turned out to be my niche, and it fits my needs for a
passive business model and amazing opportunity; but now also, has
cryptocurrency. It has proven to be of such a revolutionary
opportunity that not even I have failed at it, and mediocrity has
tended to be my middle name throughout life. Yet, here’s something
that has allowed me to position myself for outstanding success.

Whatever I could do,
everyone else was always doing better. It is particularly annoying
when I have figured out how to do one thing so well and all of a
sudden it quits working for me even though I have not done anything
differently. One of the great lessons in life is that it is possible
to do everything correctly, everything you are supposed to do, and
still end in failure. The universe tends towards disorder, and we are
sucked right along with it whichever direction it is wanting to take
us. There is but one solution to this problem; sticking with it,
finding what works, and seeking every opportunity we can find along
the way.

Opportunity, and
making use of it, is the key to defeating our “status quo”. It’s
been said that we all come into the world with nothing and with
nothing we go out of it which makes us all equal in that regard. The
only reason our lives vary so much from person to person is due to
the degree of which people have seized opportunity or ignored it.
Opportunity is the lever with which we might move our world, and it
is the intent of this publication to show you the places to stand
from which you may apply your greatest leverage with the most force
to make the largest positive impact in your life that this, or any,
opportunity can possibly provide you.

You will probably
have doubts well throughout reading this book. It is healthy to view
things with skepticism, and our lot in life can be of such a nature
that we can’t imagine breaking free of it. I’ve been there and in
fact, I still struggle with it. It is very demotivating when you can
have so many years of such bad luck, and to be walked on and stabbed
in the back by so many people, especially relatives. I’ve been
railroaded out of so much by so many people; but in the end, my
failures are all chalked up to missed opportunity. Not doing what I
should have, when I should have, because I didn’t know any better
or how to make it happen with limited resources. I’ve been so
demotivated, that this book is nearing a year in the making. When I
started out, Bitcoin was a mere $700. Now, I am rewriting and
revising my chapters as necessary to make them more valuable to my
readers; Bitcoin was $3,000 when most of the following chapters were
written originally but now it is a whopping $7,500. *Now doing the
proof-edit before publishing just a week or so later, Bitcoin is now
$10,000+.*

I want to stress
that Bitcoin is a huge opportunity yet, but it is very volatile. If
you buy a large quantity at $7,500, and it drops to $5,000 or $3,500
you will feel sick; but the trend always is that it never goes lower
than previous lows, and it is getting harder to mine by the day, and
there is so much demand for them and so little supply. There are
people publicly going on the record stating that Bitcoin will reach
$1 million dollars by 2020 (Bill Gates said this according to
numerous articles I’ve ran into. I can’t verify it obviously.) A
PayPal executive recently said there is a greater than 50/50 chance
Bitcoin is already worth a million dollars, and that was in a
reputable news article!

Eventually yes,
Bitcoin is a million-dollar coin. If we were to go into a coma and
wake up in ten or twenty years and check the price of Bitcoin, we
will be in total shock. In ten or twenty years from the publication
of this book, never mind a hundred or more years passing, it is
astronomical to think what might come of the Bitcoin value. So, if
buying Bitcoin, I will tell you straight up to figure out what
percentage of your income you want to put into it, and do not fail to
follow through. It will go up, it will go down, but it will average
out and in the end you will win. $10,000 BTC is around the corner,
then it will go for $25,000… Once it hits $25,000, it won’t take
long for the hype to drive it to $100,000.

The stable price of
Bitcoin for a year or so had been around $1,000 a coin. I couldn’t
justify spending $1,000 for a Bitcoin. Then, it dropped to $700, and
I won a Bitcoin in a casino off a 0.01 BTC wager. My laptop died, and
I had no way to afford a replacement. So guess what, I had to sell my
Bitcoin and add a few bucks to it yet, and buy my new laptop. No
computer means I am unemployed; my livelihood is my computer.

It quickly headed to
$3,000/BTC after I had sold. So in many ways I feel like I’ve
missed the boat, but I haven’t missed it. Bitcoin is only one facet
of this beautiful opportunity, as you will see in the coming
chapters. It is very disheartening however, that this laptop went
from being a $1,200 machine, to being about a $10,000 machine thanks
to that money not being able to stay in BTC where I needed it to
remain. This of course is the very definition of an opportunity cost,
by the way. If I kept the BTC it would have cost me being able to
work; and selling it for the laptop means it cost the BTC to be able
to keep working.

In 2010, I don’t
know that anyone took bitcoin seriously. There were some people who
knew it was heading for hundreds of dollars but I don’t think any
of them then were able to foresee it heading for the thousands and
tens of thousands of dollars a coin. I am going to attempt to write
this book with the perspective of what it would have taken to
convince me in 2010, when Bitcoin was new, to have gotten involved
and not to have missed out to the degree I did.

We may possibly have
missed Bitcoin to a great degree but not completely; however, there
are new coins skyrocketing every day! There are literally dozens of
cryptocurrencies I had looked at and thought, “I don’t think it
will do anything”, and that is dozens of times I could have turned
a few dollars into a few million, rather literally. Take your pick;
$0.05 Litecoin going up almost to $100.00 a coin. Monero, Ethereum,
all doing similarly. There will always be more such opportunities,
but unless we retrain our minds how to think and approach these
things, we will continue to miss them. It is all too easy to dismiss
something with a low value as being worthless, and it gets a person
every time.

My great uncle told
me the story of how once he owned around four-thousand acres of water
frontage on the river, and gave it away because all he wanted was the
timber, which he logged, and didn’t want to have to pay taxes on
the land afterwards. The value he once seen in it was already
exploited and no longer existed, and was content to tell everyone the
land was worthless, so as he told me, he gave it away for the taxes.
Turns out, that same land became worth hundreds of dollars a square
foot when people started wanting to retire or build vacation homes to
be able to live on the water. It is human nature to not see the value
in things which are valuable until long after it’s too late.
Traditional thinking had blinded him to any future possibilities.
Hindsight is 20/20, but lucky for us cryptocurrency is an ongoing
opportunity for the foreseeable future. Think of how old traditional
money and banking is, but there are still opportunities here and
there, right? Imagine how young cryptocurrencies are now, and how
exponentially greater the potential opportunities are with them where
the future is concerned!

The biggest critics
and skeptics are going to say that the American Dream is dead, or
rags to riches is impossible. It just can’t happen, right? Wrong.
Maybe it is difficult, and very hard to obtain, but it is possible
and it does happen. The hardest part is convincing yourself to
participate in any given opportunity while it is still good timing.
The perceived risks can seem so much greater than the actual risks;
we can only spend time once. We live in the moment, heading to the
future, but the past is sealed so we try to do what we think is right
and what we think we need to, especially when we are wrong. It is
possible to be burned by so many opportunities and so many people,
that we just don’t want to try anymore. This, however, is different
from most opportunities.

As for
rags-to-riches; I personally know a couple that I am good friends
with whom had turned their last $100 into what became a
multi-million-dollar empire of retail stores. They didn’t whine how
unfair life is, nor did they cling to their last few dollars. They
didn’t say the world owes them a living. They never went on any
government handouts, either. They dared to pursue a vision in the
most traditional American way imaginable.

It did take them
years of working for nothing all day to build what they did; the song
Taking Care of Business is not an exaggeration at all, but a literal
truth of what greatest success stories have gone through, and what
the average nine-to-fiver does not understand or even acknowledge.

Workers feel like
the rich are getting rich by stepping on them to climb their way up.
No, the rich got rich by sacrifice and risk taking; it is why to some
degree owners resent their employees, for their employees tend to
feel entitled and exploited but have no clue as to what hardships the
owners themselves endured to build a nice big company that can offer
a relatively safe career to its workers that do not appreciate the
effort to be able to build something that can offer a job.

If it weren’t for
entrepreneurs and capitalists, there would be no jobs. Government
does not create jobs, (except in its own agencies which are far
overreaching in size and scope) the private sector does. So long as
people can’t find their own way in life, jobs will be necessary
because people have to eat, afford housing, and raise their families.
When a poor person wants a loan to start a business, they go where?
To a banker, or a rich person who can finance the venture without
sacrificing their own ability to survive in the process.

Rich people do not
stuff their money in their mattresses, rather they stuff it into the
economy, building new buildings and factories and developing new
markets for new products and services. This is what creates the jobs
most of the world so desperately needs in order to survive, not to
mention they are driving innovation. Who among you can gather a few
people and empty your wallets into one pile and say, “Let’s start
building smartphones and compete against Apple and Motorola!” It
just doesn’t work that way. If you truly had the abilities to make
a phone, you would have to seek out the capital, a lot of capital
just to get going, and it would be years before you were able to keep
anything for yourself. If you destroy the wealth of the few who were
successful, you destroy the ability for them to feel like they can
afford to take risks on people who want to borrow money to do big
things with their great visions, particularly in things that banks
are prohibited for lending money for.

The job you don’t
like but have to have because your survival requires it, only exists
because someone originally sacrificed most of their time they could
have spent with their family or doing whatever else they valued, and
put everything they owned on the line. Everyone who works for
themselves that has achieved anything great literally has done their
time of “working for nothing all day” for much of their business
owning career; five to ten years is a common duration to pass before
business owners have something left after paying overhead to no
longer have to work all day for nothing and be rewarded for their
labors and lost time.

There are hundreds
of thousands of people in this country who “make” millions, but
after the tax man takes his cut and after paying operating expenses,
they are very lucky to even be a part of the middle class heaven
forbid they can actually keep anything they have earned for
themselves. One does not simply become a part of the mythical one
percent without having to work hard and sacrifice a long time to
achieve it.

There are rich
people who are totally lazy and had their fortune fall into their
lap, and yes, they have earned our contempt. It is better to not be
upset with what others have and you don’t, but labor to build
yourself up, instead. The thing about wealth though, is if you didn’t
build it yourself, you haven’t a clue how to make it grow further
and it is why lottery winners are in the poor house a year or two
later. I am actually going to teach you how to build your wealth
through cryptocurrency, and by building it yourself, you will
appreciate it, and be able to keep repeating it as necessary until
you are comfortable with your success and able to achieve everything
you want to achieve.

Devoting even a
small amount of your spare time to finding and participating in any
opportunity can very much make the difference between vacationing on
your couch due to it being the only place you can afford to visit,
and sitting on a beach somewhere watching the sunsets and feeling
like a winner because you finally made it. You have to dream big, and
these dreams will not happen unless you take some steps towards
making them happen. Fortunately, you do not have to create a whole
new industry like Vanderbilt and Carnegie did, nor do you have to
make a new invention like Edison; you merely have to open your mind
to this phenomenal opportunity which is before you now, in this book.

A truly great
opportunity can be participated in equally by everyone regardless of
who you are or where you come from. (The exception of course might
well be China, with their great firewall keeping everything out they
don’t want in, including cryptocurrencies and websites pertinent to
them. Even in Vietnam, Bitcoin itself is banned entirely, yet the
people still buy and sell it on the streets and in shops in secret.
If communism can’t completely stop cryptocurrency, there is very
little that can.)

Bitcoin has allowed
people to bypass all manners of regulations, and that is the kind of
trait which is valuable in any currency. The free market principles
are always at work as surely as the universe has laws it operates
under and will always find ways to reign in overregulation.
Cryptocurrency is one such mechanism for enabling free market ideals
to keep working. No matter how totalitarian a country is, there
always will be a black market. Black markets are not evil, they are
just the free market continuing on despite the whims of a nation’s
leaders, although most of the stuff that should never be for sale is
available through black markets so therefore they garner a bad
reputation and end up scaring people away from them, along with the
types of people that are involved.

I myself failed in
the beginning to make a proper assessment of Bitcoin and associated
currencies that came afterwards. It was a fifty-fifty chance of me
deciding correctly (either I would do it or I wouldn’t do it) and I
chose wrongly. In betting against Bitcoin, I came to learn that I had
bet against human nature and the fact it always seeks a new way to
finance its vices and circumvent the rules we find in society, which
is necessary in preserving liberty by the way. I do believe in
laissez-faire, do as you want to do but let me do as I want to do,
though there are a few small exceptions: As long as everyone’s
activities do not interfere adversely with the lives of anyone else,
there should be no regulations or laws restricting us in our ventures
and enterprises. We need fewer regulations and fewer laws. Let people
be free enough to succeed. Now, kids can’t even set up lemonade
stands, they have to have inspections and permits first!

(Yes, black-markets
notoriously have used cryptocurrency, but there will always be black
markets. Don’t let that dissuade you, for at one time in history
just about everything has been illegal somewhere. Books were burned
in Nazi Germany; alcohol was illegal during prohibition in the USA.
Would you believe there are places in the United States where adult
toys are illegal? As sad as that is, there probably is a poor soul in
prison somewhere because they were pulled over by the police with a
carload of vibrators. Draconian laws are numerous, and growing in
number by the day. It is my hope people will wake up and choose
liberty over tyranny. Just because something is illegal does not make
it wrong. The real wrong is usurping the natural rights of
individuals on the supposition they may abuse them.)

The more against
“the system” something is, the greater chance that it will
potentially succeed and be seen as tremendously valuable. Bitcoin was
just one of those great innovations which ran entirely against the
system and indeed has proven itself. Gold and silver run against the
system too, which legally they were supposed to always be our system
if you read the constitution, but thanks to Woodrow Wilson along with
the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Act of 1913 which he signed
into law, that all changed forever which is a discussion for another
book which I plan to write telling the story of why sound money is
necessary for a society to prosper. This act paved the way for the
total destruction of sound money which was the ever watchful guardian
of private wealth and prosperity.

There will always be
attempts from those in power to curtail the liberties and safeguards
which things like gold and silver provide against a progressive
government agenda. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seized all
privately owned gold under his first executive order (#6102) upon
entering office in 1933, though $20.67 in non-redeemable paper money
was paid for each ounce of gold seized. In 1934, gold was revalued to
$35.00 an ounce, meaning in a year’s time the people who lost their
gold to the government were robbed of around 40% of their wealth
almost overnight. It wasn’t until the 1970’s when gold was
deregulated and again legal for Americans to own. When something
serves the interests of the people too well, government will always
try to stop it.

Bitcoin cannot be
seized or confiscated in the traditional sense, and it is unclear if
even the Great Firewall of China can stop cryptocurrency completely.
Then I’ve heard rumors about China wanting to ban all
cryptocurrencies and create their own state operated cryptocurrency
which all of their people are to use!

People love their
freedom even if they do not fully understand the concept of freedom
at times; Bitcoin is essentially a financial freedom movement at its
very core and just like an idea, it will always waft across the
highest walls and the most secure borders. I did not even think about
these things in the beginning. I did not know these were things to
even consider. I seriously underestimated Bitcoin’s ability to
preserve and enhance liberty and my skepticism would not allow me to
see the real value inherent in something completely intangible.

Had I dared to even
put a hundred-dollars into Bitcoin in the beginning of the coin’s
life, I would be wealthy beyond my wildest dreams. All that would
have been required to convince me to do so would have been to cause
me to recognize Bitcoin for the vehicle it was; a vehicle enabling
mankind to sneak through the regulatory firewalls which are ever
obstructing opportunity and prosperity. This is the real root of
freedom; being able to use our wealth how we want to. We earned it,
we suffered for it, no man and certainly no government has any right
to tell us what we may use our money for, yet they do because they
have us entirely reliant upon money they create out of thin air, that
they regulate.

We have almost come
full circle: It’s how the tea ended up in Boston Harbor. Britain
and King George the Third were essentially looting the colonies by
placing Americans under such heavy financial and regulatory burdens
beyond which could be tolerated, and eventually people did something
about it. Chief among the tyranny was the refusal to allow a fair
money system to operate in the Colonies. Something will always be
done when it gets to that point regarding anything, so here we have
arrived at throwing traditional banking into the digital harbor.

It isn’t a new
concept to do what we want with the money we’ve earned and the
capital we have built for ourselves; rather it is an old one that
once was championed as “free enterprise”. Corporatism has
infiltrated and replaced real capitalism and free enterprise. It is
why we have so much red-tape preventing anyone from undertaking any
venture without a mountain of permits and licenses. Big business has
learned how to protect itself from competition by making sure no one
can come in and compete, and if they do it will be so costly they
won’t possibly survive trying; all while the regulators are bought
and paid for to serve them.

Laissez-faire
doctrine is the only doctrine truly enabling us to achieve our
greatest potential. It is what enabled industrious people to go from
rags to riches. America used to be the nation of free enterprise, and
we are slowly returning to it after decades of government overreach
and red tape; but our problems of today are largely due to this
country turning its back on what made it great in the first place:
Sound money and economic freedom. Both of which are enabled by
cryptocurrency because cryptocurrency, while to some degree is being
regulated, is reasonably impossible to enforce regulations against.

Government can
freeze bank accounts and seize assets. However, money is controlled
either by banks or by governments or both. Cryptocurrency is
decentralized, there is no one place they can go and shut you down
at. They would literally have to seize all of your hardware, all of
your internet accounts, and even then they still couldn’t possibly
find all of the places you may be hiding your cryptocurrency. All
they can do is enforce regulations concerning the conversion of fiat
money into cryptocurrency, or vice versa. Money is necessary in any
form we can find it in, and even more valuable is to be able to use
it as we see fit. Government does not know what is best for us, we
do.

Money is said to be
the root of all evil. This is not true at all. It is the love of
money that is the root of all evil. Money itself is a tool bearing
the traits of its wielder, neither good nor evil in and of itself.
The world runs on money, society cannot function without it.
Bartering is declared by many people to be superior to the way things
are done now, yet it is so flawed; whilst a cow is worth upwards of a
thousand dollars today, would you work a twelve-hour day in the hot
sun to only be paid in a few pounds of beef? I should think not. You
could trade the beef maybe, but would you be able to find a taker
before it spoils? You also can’t squirrel away fruit and nuts for
your retirement, either.

Whilst people
continue to prosper their governments try to become more devious in
how they use money as a way of controlling and influencing the people
living under them. An honest commodity money is ideal; people say it
isn’t because the rich just hoard the money. Yet, fiat is believed
to be acceptable and inflation is mistaken for prosperity; “Oh,
everyone has more money now than twenty years ago!” I am sorry but
someone is failing to consider the loss of purchasing power due to
the inflation. Gasoline was also $1.25 a gallon twenty years ago (in
the 1990’s), and minimum wage was around $5.00 an hour. Now, we’ve
seen gasoline up to $4.00 and almost $5.00 in recent years but it has
settled in around $2.75 per gallon currently. The minimum wage has
not risen to $10.00 an hour even though gasoline is more than double.

Consider further
that gasoline was at one time $0.25 a gallon. It would have been a
90% silver quarter containing what right now is $3.00 worth of silver
at about $17.00 per ounce for silver. This means gasoline is actually
slightly cheaper in terms of real purchasing power. So, it’s not
that prices have gone up, it is that fiat money is confiscating our
wealth and making us poorer every year that we use it.